In 2017, Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY had a population of 140k people with a median age of 29.8 and a median household income of $26,482. Between 2016 and 2017 the population of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY grew from 136,982 to 140,324, a 2.44% increase and its median household income grew from $24,436 to $26,482, a 8.37% increase.

The population of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY is 68.4% Hispanic or Latino, 27.5% Black or African American Alone, and 1.66% Asian Alone. 72.9% of the people in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY speak a non-English language, and 74.9% are U.S. citizens.

The largest universities in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY are CUNY Bronx Community College (1,574 degrees awarded in 2017).

The median property value in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY is $423,900, and the homeownership rate is 3.83%. Most people in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY commute by Public Transit, and the average commute time is 41 minutes. The average car ownership in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY is 0 cars per household.

This chart presents movement trends over time in the state of New York across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.

Median household income in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY is $26,482. Males in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY have an average income that is 0.997 times higher than the average income of females, which is $33,171. The income inequality in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY (measured using the Gini index) is 0.379, which is lower than than the national average.

Households in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY have a median annual income of $26,482, which is less than the median annual income of $61,937 across the entire United States. This is in comparison to a median income of $24,436 in 2016, which represents a 8.37% annual growth.

The following chart shows how the median household income in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY compares to that of its neighboring and parent geographies.

In 2017 the highest paid race/ethnicity of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY workers was Asian. These workers were paid 1.16 times more than American Indian workers, who made the second highest salary of any race/ethnicity.

This chart shows the race- and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY by number of full-time employees.

In 2017, the income inequality in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY was 0.379 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.214% decline from 2016 to 2017, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat more even.

The 2017 the GINI for Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY was lower than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY in comparison to the national average.

This chart shows the number of workers in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY across various wage buckets compared to the national average.

40% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY (55.6k out of 139k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 13.1%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 25 - 34, followed by Females 45 - 54 and then Females 35 - 44.

The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.

The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY is Hispanic, followed by Black and White.

The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.

From 2016 to 2017, employment in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY grew at a rate of 3.02%, from 50.1k employees to 51.6k employees.

The most common employment sectors for those who live in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY, are Restaurants & Food Services (5,436 people), Home health care services (4,729 people), and Individual & family services (2,860 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY, though some of these residents may live in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.

85.6% of the population of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY has health coverage, with 21.1% on employee plans, 54.8% on Medicaid, 2.95% on Medicare, 6.45% on non-group plans, and 0.278% on military or VA plans.

Per capita personal health care spending in the puma of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY was $9,778 in 2014. This is a 4.57% increase from the previous year ($9,351).

Primary care physicians in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY see 1202 patients per year on average, which represents a 0.25% increase from the previous year (1199 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 1240 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 393 patients per year.

Comparing across all counties in the state, Oswego County and Bronx County have the highest prevalence of diabetes (12.2%). Additionally, Chemung County has the highest prevalence of adult obesity (33.3%)

In 2016, West Virginia had the highest prevalence of adults with major depressive episode, with 8.26% of the population affected. The second highest is Arkansas (8.13%), followed by New Hampshire (7.98%).

The following map shows the percent of individuals with major depressive episode by state over multiple years.

Between N/A and 2016, the percent of uninsured citizens in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY stayed by NaNk% from N/A% to 14.4%.

The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.

Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY is home to a population of 140k people, from which 74.9% are citizens. As of 2016, 42.4% of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY residents were born outside of the country (58.1k people).

The most common foreign languages spoken in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY are Spanish (81,086 speakers), Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or Other Languages of Western Africa (6,438 speakers), and French (Incl. Cajun) (1,754 speakers).

In 2017, the median age of all people in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY was 29.8. Native-born citizens, with a median age of 21, were generally younger than than foreign-born citizens, with a median age of 42. But people in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY are getting getting younger. In 2016, the average age of all Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY residents was 30.

As of 2016, 42.4% of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY residents (58.1k people) were born outside of the United States, which is higher than the national average of 13.7%. In 2015, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY was 42.2%, meaning that the rate has been increasing.

The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.

In 2017, the most common birthplace for the foreign-born residents of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY was Dominican Republic, the natal country of 36,583 Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY residents, followed by Mexico with 3,983 and Ghana with 3,632.

As of 2017, 74.9% of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY residents were US citizens, which is lower than the national average of 93.2%. In 2016, the percentage of US citizens in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY was 74.9%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been decreasing.

The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.

In 2017, there were 2.48 times more Hispanic or Latino residents (95.9k people) in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY than any other race or ethnicity. There were 38.6k Black or African American Alone and 2.33k Asian Alone residents, the second and third most common racial or ethnic groups.

The following bar chart shows the 8 races and ethnicities represented in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY as a share of the total population.

72.9% of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY citizens are speakers of a non-English language, which is higher than the national average of 21.9%. In 2017, the most common non-English language spoken in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY was Spanish. 63.2% of the overall population of Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY are native Spanish speakers. 5.01% speak Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or Other Languages of Western Africa and 1.37% speak Spanish, the next two most common languages.

Most students graduating from Universities in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY are Hispanic or Latino (975 and 63.5%), followed by Black or African American (460 and 30%), Asian (50 and 3.26%), and White (37 and 2.41%).

The largest universities in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY by number of degrees awarded are CUNY Bronx Community College (1,574 and 100%).

The median tuition costs in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY are $N/A for private four year colleges, and $N/A and $N/A respectively, for public four year colleges for in-state students and out-of-state students.

In 2017, 582 men were awarded degrees from institutions in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY, which is 0.587 times less than the 992 female students who received degrees in the same year.

This chart displays the gender disparity between the institutions in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY by degrees awarded.

In 2017 the majority of degrees awarded at institutions in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY were to Hispanic or Latino students. These 975 degrees mean that there were 2.12 times more Hispanic or Latino students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, Black or African American, with 460 degrees awarded.

The median property value in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY was $423,900 in 2017, which is 1.85 times larger than the national average of $229,700. Between 2016 and 2017 the median property value increased from $386,900 to $423,900, a 9.56% increase. The homeownership rate in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY is 3.83%, which is lower than the national average of 63.9%. People in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY have an average commute time of 41 minutes, and they commute by Public Transit. Car ownership in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY is lower than the national average, with an average of 0 cars per household.

In 2017, the median property value in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY grew to to $423,900 from the previous year's value of $386,900.

The following charts display, first, the property values in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies and, second, owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property value buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY the largest share of households have a property value in the $500k - $750k range.

Please note that the buckets used in this visualization were not evenly distributed by ACS when publishing the data.

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In 2017, the median household income of the 45.3k households in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY grew to $26,482 from the previous year's value of $24,436.

The following chart displays the households in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the < $10k range.

This chart shows the households in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY the largest share of households pay taxes in the $3k+ range.

In 2017, 3.83% of the housing units in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY were occupied by their owner. This percentage grew from the previous year's rate of 3.33%.

This percentage of owner-occupation is lower than the national average of 63.9%. This chart shows the ownership percentage in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.

Using averages, employees in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY have a longer commute time (41 minutes) than the normal US worker (25.1 minutes). Additionally, 8.39% of the workforce in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.

The chart below shows how the median household income in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.

In 2017, the most common method of travel for workers in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY was Public Transit (67.5%), followed by those who Drove Alone (14.7%) and those who Walked (8.6%).

The following chart shows the number of households using each mode of transportation over time, using a logarithmic scale on the y-axis to help better show variations in the smaller means of commuting.

The following chart displays the households in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Morris Heights, Fordham South & Mount Hope PUMA, NY have 0 cars, followed by 1 car.